Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 7. EMPLOYMENT GENERALLY; EMPLOYERS LIABILITY · Article 3. EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO RAILROAD EMPLOYEES

34-7-48. Recovery by employee working beyond limited hours of service.

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No employee of any railroad company shall be deprived of his right to recover damages for personal injury by reason of the fact that at the time of such injury he was making a run of more than 13 hours, or making a run aggregating more than 13 hours in 24 hours, or had gone on duty after a 13 hour run, or runs aggregating 13 hours, before ten hours’ rest.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 186, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2240; Civil Code 1910, § 2693; Code 1933, § 66-410; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 34/HB 323.

Other notes

The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted ‘‘, as prohibited by Code Section 46-8-152’’ following ‘‘rest’’ at the end of this Code section.

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